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911 - Louis the Child, last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks (b. 893)

955 - Pope Agapetus II

1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)

1226 - King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)

1246 - Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)

1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher

1517 - Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman (b. 1436)

1527 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)

1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)

1600 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)

1603 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)

1658 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)

1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)

 
 

1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)

1817 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)

1830 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)

1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)

1890 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)

1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)

1917 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)

1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)

1945 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)

1953 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)

1953 - John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)

1977 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (b. 1896)

1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)

 
 

1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)

1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)

1999 - Leon ?tukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)

2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)

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